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    "id": 980018,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980018/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bureti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Japheth Mutai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13310,
        "legal_name": "Japheth Kiplangat Mutai",
        "slug": "japheth-kiplangat-mutai"
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    "content": "of a TBK to be managing and regulating the tea industry. Our friends yesterday alluded to the fact that the tea industry has been left to the mercies of many dodgy players within. The issue of research as raised by my colleague here from Ainamoi has been left out. It is unfunded. They lack funds. We are not progressing as an industry because we are not looking for best practices out there so that we can embrace them to ensure tea farmers get maximum returns for their produce. The Tea Research Foundation based in my county of Kericho has been left unfunded. It is nearly becoming moribund. The farmers are not enjoying the services and it is incumbent upon us to rise to the occasion and ensure that we fund Tea Research Foundation so as to ensure that they do research on best practices out there and that tea farmers enjoy the outcome of those institutions. The current taxation imposed by the Government needs to be regulated. We expect dealers and processors to be exporting tea directly from the factories in future. It attracts a lot of taxation. It attracts VAT if you export tea directly from the factories. But it does not attract the same tax if the tea is sold through warehouses in Mombasa. Those are the areas that we need to address. Finally, on the qualifications of a CEO. I would like to see the five years extended to 10 years so that we get the right person. It is not good to have a company secretary with seven years’ experience and a CEO with five years’ experience. Let us have a CEO of TBK having 10 years’ experience and the company secretary…"
}